The way my apartment works is that while I have plenty of pantry space for preps inside the apartment, I also have covered parking and room for storage in front of my car. Each spot has its own extra storage unless you live in an apartment with an attached garage. You can fit a lot in there, I just haven't used mine yet.

Increased seismic activity in old volcanic zones in western US (a.o. Mt St. Hellens, M3.3) due to the large earthquake for the California coast (M6,5 dec 8) will spread further east and hit Oklahoma (did get a 3,7 dec 10-Dutchsinse is warning for a possible M5,5-6 in that area.)

The Solomon-islands keeps recieving large quakes up to M6.9 dec 9-that pressure will spread further in the Pacific-a.o. Japan (did see a M5 dec 10). Pressure from the earlier M7,8 dec 8 quake will move via India/Iran to the Middle East and then Europe (Dutchsinse Crete M5.5 to M6 expected).

Also a warning for south-central America (El Salvador-Columbia).

DJ: so far Dutchsinse is making quite good predictions again. The EMSC sometimes pick up quakes the USGS is not mentioning. Pressure should end up in the Mid-Atlantic ridge-silence can be a warning sign. I do not want to see a major quake (>M5) in the (northern) Mid Atlantic. That could effect western Europe and eastern US.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~Albert Einstein

KiwiMum, it is not the best message to get. On the other hand realism can save lives. The problem is that when at a given moment there is a 70% chance of a major quake in a given timeframe-there is also still a 30% chance it will NOT happen. When authorities issue warnings and those warnings afterwards did not become reality-authorities can loose credebility.

That works with weather events, tsunami-warnings and also increased earthquake risks.

On the longer term some parts of the world should start building earthquake-proof in a better way. Light structures, proberbly find good answers for water, electricity etc. (Solar power-local electricity production in my opinion is a clever answer-not large scale production with expensive networks but production on the spot/close to the spot-were it is needed.)

Also some areas people should move away from because of being to remote for help or to much risks (landslides, tsunami-risks).

Several climate scientists on facebook warn for the extreme temperatures in the Arctic, methane in Antarctic (MH Hensel methane above 2miles, 3,2 kilometers ice-source unknown). Dutchsinse also mentions the supervolcano in the Arctic (northern most of Atlantic ridge). Antarctica also has several volcanic zones.

Abrupt climate change=increase in earthquakes/volcanos=abrupt sealevelrise. If we are lucky that sealevelrise is in centimeters, when we run out of luck it will be in waves we have never seen since humans are on this planet.

The depth of the M7.3 is of particular concern... measuring in at over 610km deep.

Deep earthquakes usually lead to shallower larger earthquakes which strike the "silent zone fulcrum points" on every side of the deep event.

Thus Japan, Papua New Guinea (solomon sea), and Indonesia all three need to be warned, and all three will be hit by larger activity (larger than anything we've seen in the past several weeks). This could reach above M6.5 in several locations.

The larger earthquakes could go a full 1-2 magnitudes LARGER than the deep M7.3 - thus making the potential for a very large earthquake (M8.3 to M9.3) much greater than "normal".

The larger earthquakes, if they occur, should strike to the West of the Deep earthquake with additional pressure fanning out across the area to the North and slightly East as far as Papua New Guinea.

This is the largest deep earthquake we've seen in years, which means the whole Pacific plate is about to be displaced (is being displaced). Areas such as the West coast of the United States (Eureka to Cleft Segment) should be on heightened alert for the potential for up to M6.8 to M7.0 .

Midwest USA should be on watch after California - watch for midrange M5.0 or swarms = to this. Could be swarms of 3's mixed with a few midrange M4.0 earthquakes, but more likely something larger.

This week is going to be a week of displacement around the planet.. all the way to Europe and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

Italy, South Europe, Mediterranean -- you only have 3-4 days at the most before you'll start seeing an influx of new seismic pressure which will increase magnitudes by up to 3X. This means up to a 1,000% power increase from the M3.0's we've been seeing. The potential for M6.0 activity in Greece is large. The potential for M5.0 activity in Central Italy at the NEW swarm location which popped up yesterday (Jan 9 2016).

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~Albert Einstein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt_aZfDaD64 Dutchsinse expected an 8+m earthquake in Indonesia after the jan-10 deep M7.3 quake in the Philipines. It did not happen. Also his warning for a close to m8 in Japan, m6 US west coast and close to m6 Columbia/Panama did not turn out to be correct. (Also his warning for Italy failed....)

On one side it is good Jawa-Indonesia did not have a major earthquake-killing many people. On the other side correct predictions can save many lives.

Dutchsinse switched to a watch for the coming 3 days he earlier warned.

Dutch Josh, I'll make a prediction for earthquakes here in NZ: I think we're about to have a really huge quake. There are three things that make me think this:

1. We've just had a third pod of whales strand on the Farewell Spit at the top of the South Island. Hundreds have died since the first pod of 416 whales stranded on Thursday night, this latest pod that stranded last night had another 200 whales in it. There is a link between whale strandings and earthquakes.

2. On geonet there have been a whole series of small quakes along the Hope fault (a huge fault that runs right past my house - I can see it from my window right now - and feeds into the even larger Alpine Fault. There are always small quakes on this fault but the ones on the maps right now are in a perfect line running the full length of the fault so something is adjusting there right now. There was a severe 5.2 this morning along the line.

3. We're on a full moon and are experiencing very high tides.

So watch this space. Has Dutchsinse said anything about this part of the world?

Kiwimum; for what I know of the three indicators (whales stranding, quakes-frequency/location-spread, full moon) you mention there may be links to earthquakes. On USGS two deeper quakes, a 4,9 in Fiji 506.4km depth and Vanuatu a 4,5 at 201,4 km depth. Deep earthquakes translate in more shallow quakes with a magnitude 1 to 2 higher-was a Dutchsinse-rule.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw0N27YKO1o Dutchsinse latest update. (NZ from 7.55, latest quake was a 6,3-downgraded to a 5,3. Dutchsins does mention there may be forming a new fracturezone allover New Zealand. But the last quakes in NZ are already a reaction to the deep Fiji-quake. A major quake might be near Japan (M6 ?) but seismic unrest for New Zealand. In my opinion Dutchsinse is doing a very good-but far from perfect-job. He is not "the best" in predicting unusual events. Pressure from Fiji most goes to the west and can translate in one larger quake, swarms of quakes and/or volcanic activity. Even a super-computer would not be able to make the right calculations on this. There seems to be a relationship between (some) storms, methane-release and quakes but also these are far from perfect indicators. At 45 min Dutchsinse mentions deep-fractures at several places (Pakistan, Peru etc) in february 2011 just before the march 2011 M9 Japan-quake. There are at present also some major cracks in the groud-hard to tell if they indicate a major seismic event.)

Looking at last weeks FiJi quakes (USGS) lots of deep activity-I understand there is a big worry for a major quake in New Zealand.

4.9

South of the Fiji Islands

2017-02-11 11:15:57 (UTC)

506.4 km

4.5

61km N of Isangel, Vanuatu

2017-02-11 09:38:44 (UTC)

201.4 km

5.2

3km N of Nuku`alofa, Tonga

2017-02-10 07:18:25 (UTC)

38.5 km

4.5

South of the Fiji Islands

2017-02-08 17:16:05 (UTC)

537.4 km

5.1

287km SE of Lambasa, Fiji

2017-02-08 00:06:45 (UTC)

634.3 km

4.9

146km SSW of Ndoi Island, Fiji

2017-02-07 12:23:23 (UTC)

589.0 k

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~Albert Einstein

What is difficult to predict/include is Antarctic seismic events. Melt there of landice will lead to landrise and increased siesmic activity. In sealevelrise 1% would come from mountains, 9% of the Arctic, 90% from the Antarctic.

Antarctica at several places is showing things also seen on Greenland, meltlakes above the ice, meltwater moving under the ice. There is more methane in Antarctica than the Arctic. In the coming years glacier/seaice break down will speed up-giving room for landice-thereby giving room for seismic activty. (Dutchsinse had in one of his many video's a M10 quake at the south pole, possibly a group was testing something ? http://www.extinctiontheory.com/large-quake-at-south-pole-large-quake-at-north-pole/ Dutchsinse also mentioned "anti-podal quakes" a larger quake causing a smaller quake at the opposite side of the planet. When you google for "antipodal quake" you get things like http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread726738/pg1 and more.)

Climatechange will effect New Zealand just like the rest of the globe.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~Albert Einstein

In december 2016 there was a similar situation with several strong deep earthquakes. Dutchsinse expected a larger M9 quake but that did not come. It is good to try to understand how earthquakes arise and see if there are paterns. But forecasting earthquakes is still (at best) far from perfect.

Dutchsinse assumes that there are silent zones in between areas that were hit by a quake and that pressure will come out in those silent zones. Some areas are more vulnarable than others-so I question the relevance of these silence zones.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.~Albert Einstein

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